The Freedom to Eat Chametz

Tonight Israel will celebrate the holiday of freedom and just like every year, the freedom of many hospitalized patients will be infringed on during the intermediate days of Pesach.

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The petition submitted to the High Court of Justice against the ban on bringing chametz into hospitals during Passover hasn’t been decided yet. So non-Jewish patients, secular patients, and all the patients who aren’t observant and their families will be forced to sneak food surreptitiously into their mouths like outlaws, or leave food containing chametz at hospitals’ entrance.

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